![]() ![]() Once everyone has arrived they sing Happy Birthday to him and he goes to bed happy. They all barge their way in and he is not sure why they everyone keeps coming over until the end of the story. This story is about a little boy who is surprised when all of his fairy tale friends keep showing up and knocking on his door. Opening line/sentence: Not last night but the night before, three black cats came knocking at the door. Theme(s): Friendship, birthday celebrations Title: Not Last Night But The Night Before/i> our little 2 year old loved looking at the moon every single night and in the blue sky in the morning then one day we where reading this book together the moon he screamed, jumped from his seat straight into us when he seen the picture and thinks now the □ have eyes and he will come to the door and take him away, fast forward 1 year later now with alot of tears stress and alot of explaining to my Little One yesterday after preschool I said wow its so beautiful sky and moon is there also with the sun he just got terrified and reverted back to this book the day he seen it and was to scared to even walk, which has been terrified of the moon in the sky because of this book with its creepy picture this has taking our enjoyment out of interesting science of our universe he was/is convinced the moon have eyes and will come to our door, I have explained to him this is not real it's pictures that silly people make up, to make up story's to try and think its cool but in reality of a childs brain at this age is a rollar coaster, this has really impacted my child's life in him been terrified and reading multiple child brain books myself I can see from my sons point of view how this is so disturbing and creepy. In fact, once you start thinking about it, it's a smashing job!" If the response to his books is any indication, children and adults seem to agree that Colin McNaughton is doing a "smashing job."Ĭolin McNaughton lives in London with his wife.Ġ stars if possible, this is a disturbing child's book my 3your old has got terrified from this book. "At the end of it, there it is, a book on the shelf, not like a newspaper in the gutter. He first tried editorial and advertising work, but did not find the satisfaction that he got out of creating children's books. Although his first book was published while he was still in school, Colin McNaughton did not immediately become a full-time artist. The word 'school' still gives me nightmares." Opting for technical college, he admits he even "made a mess of getting in there - I'd filled out the application wrong, and when I turned up for registration they'd never heard of me!" So he worked at odd jobs for the next year before entering art school. "It's the modern way of telling stories for today's children it's about movement, the step between film and the book."Ĭolin McNaughton says he "hated school. "I've been talking about the comic format for years," he says. ![]() These were his formative literature, and their slapstick humor has been a lasting influence. There were no books at all in his parents' home, he recalls, but there were always comics. Growing up in his native England, the young Colin McNaughton had little indication that he would one day become an author-illustrator.
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